STATEMENT ANALYSIS

Statement Analysis

Statement Analysis

Statement

True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrong-doing by its prohibitions. It does not lay its commands or prohibitions upon good men in vain, though have any effect on the wicked. It is not a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. There will not be different laws at Rome and Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is, God, over us all, for he is the author of this law, its promulgator, and its enforcing judge.

Analysis

In this short section, Cicero summarizes all the characteristics of natural law. First, it is the expression of divine will, and eternal and unimpeachable. Second and its rules must be found with the help of the mind. Third, there is a sacred duty of man to obey these rules. Whenever he comes over, he violates his own true nature and thus punishes itself. The idea of a natural law means that the fundamental nature of certain basic moral principles and that they show us how we should behave. As long as we follow them, we fulfill our prime destination. All our actions are then not only natural but also are morally right. If any of his natural position will accordingly, the world may live forever in harmony, justice and peace.

Cicero was of course, not the first who took this provocative idea. Long before him, the same Greek philosophers, had a school of the Stoics, and before Aristotle and Plato, but even they only attacked again on an even older philosophy. In fact, as we shall see, the doctrine of natural law rooted in religious ideas of the earliest humans. A True Law, as the limitation of value, must have the same characteristics of the true value to be such that must exist at the ontological epistemological, and phenomenological.

At the ontological level, the True Law is the very definition of the above, i.e. a limiting value or balance of power. At the epistemological level, the True Law is the definition of the concept of space-time limitation of the value. In the space-time to limit the values that you must have a subject that limits this value it is necessary to create a subject of the limiting value. At a phenomenological level, the True Law represented by exercise of the power to limit the value by the limiter, i.e. the use of force to enforce those limits.

Now, who has the power to limit the value? Who determines that the balance ...